Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] some sort " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joy told me to find some sort of a lining , and off they went . |
| 2 | And did n't I make some sort of arrangement to meet somebody ? |
| 3 | I want some sort of phraseology that as the nights get lighter the mornings get dark |
| 4 | yeah get em get em to do some sort of training |
| 5 | Against the woman 's express wishes , he lit a piece of paper and went into her bedroom anyway , and reported a ‘ bedstead of wood with heath [ heather ] upon it by way of a bed ; at the foot of which I saw some sort of blankets of covering rolled in a heap ’ . |
| 6 | The doctor arrived and after examining me pronounced that I had some sort of mystery virus , and there was nothing he could do for me . |
| 7 | ‘ I had some sort of idea about a telescoped vision , ’ Minton told Nevile Wallis , ‘ like those newsreel films taken with a magnifying lens of state functions and so on , where you get that curious distortion . ’ |
| 8 | See a certain percentage have blown in I think off the grass and if I had some sort of a |
| 9 | But there are no hard and fast definitions of NFI ; the distinction between a sale by the investor which represents some sort of invisible investment and one which does not is not always easy to see , especially with turn-key contracts . |
| 10 | In the conventional sense of the word , which conveys some sort of harmony with the natural world , it certainly was . |
| 11 | He had played a successful hand under Æthelred , and maintained his position in the fighting of 1015 – 16 , but Cnut , perhaps with the encouragement of his consort Ælfgifu of Northampton , who retained some sort of recognised position even after his marriage to Emma of Normandy , and whose father Eadric had overthrown , clearly decided that he was too powerful and dangerous to be tolerated further . |
| 12 | If you are pregnant and under the age of sixteen , it is compulsory that you receive some sort of education until you reach this age . |
| 13 | ‘ Have you had some sort of accident with your clothes ? ’ she enquired politely . |
| 14 | Under you know some sort of little bit of bullshit if you like saying |
| 15 | if you it depends on what you do I mean if you 're generating quantitative material , you know , if you get some sort of scale ratings of things like sort of estimates of how , how frequently they dream |
| 16 | Erm yeah so I mean that 's generally the way to go so I th I think you know it 's probably worth working away towards a , a more specific set of questions that you might want to ask and , and think of ways of administering them so you get some sort of , you know , numerical information in the end . |
| 17 | They 're calling for you to give some sort of speech . ’ |
| 18 | Did you have some sort of treatment at home ? |
| 19 | Did you have some sort of recipes ? |
| 20 | Fran settled herself in the soft leather seat , not daring to glance at the two men in case she precipitated some sort of an adverse reaction . |
| 21 | Er all of you , all of you prioritising some sort of organisation and planning of revision , so I 've got some ideas that you might want to try on that score so first years , I 'm sure like Clare you must have some work to do . |
| 22 | And in the pitch black , it seemed she had some sort of body after all ; distantly she could sense hands feeling their way , feet stumbling . |
| 23 | ‘ The letters show beyond doubt that Daphne had an affair with Gertrude Lawrence ( the American actress ) , that she was passionately in love with the wife of her American publisher but that it was n't consummated , and that she had some sort of an affair with her French teacher when young . ’ |
| 24 | And that being an intelligent man you planned the murder to divert any suspicion from yourself to someone who had some sort of grudge against Brian Harley or Derek Jefferson . ’ |
| 25 | Really I suppose much the same way as those parents whom we interviewed who had some sort of educational knowledge or understanding of their own , since we 're both involved in education . |
| 26 | I would , myself , be very keen to look at the possibility of such machines perhaps even going to third world countries , because it 's even arguable that the place for such intelligence systems is not to replace expert medical people in this country where we have such people , but to export them to developing countries which do n't have such people , and one could imagine , perhaps , a system of erm paramedical orderlies , who had some sort of medical knowledge and manipulative skill , taking a small expert computer in a shoe box — it would be no bigger — to villages and getting diagnoses of patient illnesses there on the spot . |
| 27 | To prove that you had some sort of power over me ? ’ |
| 28 | I mean if you had some sort of central area to put things in . |
| 29 | But I warn you , Mr Jacobsen , you may be under the impression that you have some sort of droit de seigneur over make-up artists but , let me assure you , you 're way off the mark . |
| 30 | You need some sort of connection … ’ |